Re: How to tell highlighted from selected items in multi-select menu?

[Adam Spragg]

Thanks for the reply.

On Monday 09 June 2008 00:44:09 Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 04:48:01PM +0100, Adam Spragg wrote:
> > The problem is that it appears to be impossible for the user to
> > distinguish between the currently highlighted item and selected
> > items.
>
> reading the code, I don't see any different conclusion.
>
> The file menu/m_post.c, function _nc_Post_Item() does all
> of the work for this detail.

Damn. Hmmm. Any idea how I ought to go about this? Should I be using 
something other than the menu to give the user what is effectively a 
set of checkboxes?

I've looked through the form library documentation and there doesn't 
appear to be any way of doing checkboxes there either. The closest 
would appear to be an enum field with "true" and "false" options (Or 
could I use "X" and " " with some event/driver hackery to get space to 
toggle the selection?) but that doesn't seem right somehow.

What have I missed?

Adam

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Octal Telecom                           http://www.octaltelecom.co.uk/


It reverses the logical flow of conversation!
> Why?
> > No.
> > > Should I top post?

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